Eighteen states, including Arizona, allow nonmedical exemptions from school immunization requirements, which has led to falling vaccination rates in twelve of those states. A study by the Baylor College of Medicine shows Arizona in the crosshairs.

There are expectations that certain states will continue to implement some kind of restrictions on abortion — including those that are medical or self-induced. It’s in this environment that the Self-Induced Abortion legal team has introduced a helpline for women who are worried about facing legal problems.

For the past several months, we’ve discussed politics and the election season. But since this is a major holiday week, Arizona Republic editorial director Phil Boas wrote a column about some quirky Thanksgiving history.

The first people from the migrant caravan began arriving at the Southern border last week, and while most of the thousands of migrants are still weeks away, President Trump has said he will meet their arrival with some 15,000 troops.

The Hopi people have a long history of running, and in his new book, Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert tells the story of some of the Hopi runners who made history in the early 1900’s.

Electric scooters have been popping up across the Valley while cities are still trying to figure out how to regulate dockless bikes. The University of Arizona has banned the scooters on its campus and ASU has the same prohibition in place in Tempe. Scottsdale and the City of Tempe, meanwhile, are allowing them, with some conditions.

Arizona State Parks Director Sue Black faced numerous investigations into her management practices during her three-and-half-year appointment by Gov. Doug Ducey. But it was a recent investigation stemming from former department archaeologists’ charges that prompted her firing on Friday.

Whether the “Blue Wave” actually happened on November 6 may be a matter of semantics. But Democrats did do very well in picking up more than 30 U.S. House seats, reclaiming a majority in that body. What were the factors?

The vaquita marina, or little sea cow, is the most endangered marine mammal in the world, with fewer than 30 left in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. At this critical moment for the nearly-extinct porpoise, activists, scientists and legal fishermen are trying to do everything they can to protect the small porpoise.

Skin’s our biggest organ — and does lots of hard work keeping us healthy — but still, it doesn’t get much respect. We hear how runners protect their skin from sweat, weather — and their greatest nemesis: chafing.

Amazon clearly stands to benefit from coming to New York, but what do New Yorkers get out of the deal? Today, we look at how Amazon could make real, substantive change in Long Island City — and whether what they have planned is enough.

When a fire takes everything you own, where do you go? That question is on the minds of more than 10,000 families who have lost their homes in the Camp Fire, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California.

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